Glenda Jackson CBE was an English actress and politician. She was one of the few performers to achieve the triple crown of American acting, winning two Oscars, three Emmy Awards and a Tony Award. She was appointed CBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 1978
Bio/Wiki
Age-87years
Height- 1.69 m
Weight-62 kg
Born- 9 May 1936
Birthplace- Birkenhead, United Kingdom
Full name-Glenda May Jackson
Death- 15 June 2023
Death place- Blackheath, London, United Kingdom
Profession-Politician, Voice Actor
Spouse- Roy Hodges (m. 1958–1976)
Nationality-British, English
Family
Glenda Jackson was born at 151 Market Street, Birkenhead, Merseyside (formerly Cheshire) on 9 May 1936. Her mother named her after Hollywood film star Glenda Farrell. Shortly after her birth, the family moved to Hoylake, Wirral. Her family was very poor and lived in a two-storey house with an outside toilet at 21 Lake Place. Her father Harry was a builder, her mother Joan (née Pearce) worked in a local shop, collected pints in the pub and was a builder. Cleaner.
Husband
In 1957, Jackson met actor and co-star Roy Hodges at their Repertory Theatre. The couple soon began a relationship. Jackson and Hodges were married on August 2, 1958, in St Marylebone Register Office in London.
Jackson’s marriage ran into trouble in the early 1970s and in 1975.
Andy Phillips
she began a relationship with Andy Phillips, the lighting director to produce Hedda Gabler de Hodges, sued Jackson for divorce in November of that year due to infidelity, and they divorced in 1976. Jackson and Phillips were in an argument. Relationship until 1981.
In 2016, it was reported that she had been happily single for decades. In the early years of her career, Jackson and her husband lived in Swiss Cottage in Northwest London, an area she later represented as an MP. In the late 1960s, the couple moved to Blackheath, Southeast London.
Children
Daniel Pearce Jackson Hodges, Born in Lewis ham, Hodges is the son of the actress and former Labour MP Glenda Jackson and her then husband Roy Hodges. Daniel is a British newspaper columnist. Since March 2016, he has written a weekly column for The Mail on Sunday.
Education
Jackson attended Holy Trinity Church of England and Cathcart Street primary schools, followed by West Kirby County Grammar School for Girls in nearby West Kirby. She performed in the Townswomen’s Guild drama group as a teenager. Jackson, J.B. performed for the first time. Priestley in Mystery of Green fingers in 1952 for the YMCA Players in Hoylake. She worked at Boots the Chemists for two years before winning a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London in 1954. Jackson moved to the capital to begin the course in early 1955.
Career
Acting Career
In January 1957, Jackson made her professional debut at Worthing’s Connaught Theater in Ted Willis’ Doctor in the House. This was followed by Terence Rattigan’s Separate Tables while Jackson was still at RADA, and she began performing in repertory theater. She also worked as a director at Crewe Repertory Theatre.
From 1958 to 1961, Jackson went through two and a half years of not being able to find acting work. She auditioned unsuccessfully for the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and did what she later described as “a series of soul-destroying jobs”. This included waitressing at the 2i’s Coffee Bar, office work at a large City of London firm, answering phones for a theater agent and a role in British Home Stores. She also worked as a blue dresser at Butlin’s Pwllhel resort on the Llŷn Peninsula in Northwest Wales, where her new husband and co-star Roy Hodges was in a red coat. Jackson later returned to the Dundee Repertory Theatre but worked in pubs between acting jobs.
To secure funding from United Artists for The Music Lovers (1970), Russell explained it as “the story of a homosexual who marries a nymph”, pairing composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Richard Chamberlain) with Antonina. Miliukova was played by Jackson.
Fifteen years after the New York engagement of Marat/Sade, Jackson returned to Broadway in Andrew Davies’s Rose (1981) opposite Jessica Tandy; both actresses received Tony nominations for their roles.
In July 2022, the British Film Institute celebrated her film and television career with a month-long retrospective season at London’s BFI Southbank. In addition to screenings of her work, the show featured Glenda Jackson on The Conversation, where she was interviewed by broadcaster John Wilson about her stage career.
Jackson retired from acting to pursue a political career between 1992 and 2015 and was elected as the Labor MP for Hempstead and Highgate in the 1992 general election. She was Transport Secretary during Tony Blair’s government from 1997 to 1999 and later became a critic by Blair. He represented Hempstead and Kilburn from 2010 after the constituency boundaries were changed. In the parliamentary election of 2010, his majority of 42 votes, confirmed after a recount, was the narrowest in parliament. Jackson resigned in the 2015 general election and returned to acting.
Political Career
Jackson joined the Labor Party in the early 1950s, aged 16. However, his previous campaigns were not party political. In 1978, she was one of the public figures who lent her name as a sponsor of the Anti-Nazi League in the same year, she appeared in a print advertisement for Oxfam. Jackson was chief executive of the National Association of Voluntary Hostels and spoke at the protests on behalf of the Shelter charity.
Jackson’s name has been associated with several parliamentary seats over the years; She was launched by the Bristol Labor Party (CLP) in the general election in 1979, but did not materialize.
Jackson retired from acting in 1991 to devote herself to politics full-time as the prospective parliamentary candidate for Hempstead and Highgate.
Achievement/Awards
- She was one of the few performers to achieve the triple crown of American acting, winning two Oscars, three Emmy Awards and a Tony Award.
- Glenda was appointed CBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 1978.
- She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, for the romantic films Women in Love (1970) and A Touch of Class (1973).
- Glenda also won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress for Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971).
- She won two Primetime Emmy Awards for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth I in the BBC series Elizabeth R (1971).
- She received both a British Television Academy Award for Best Actress and an International Emmy Award for Best Actress for her role in Elizabeth Is Missing (2019).
- Glenda received five Laurence Olivier Award nominations for her West End roles in Stevie (1977), Antony and Cleopatra (1979), Rose (1980), Strange Interlude (1984) and King Lear (2016), and won a Tony Award for Best Actress, for her role in Edward Albee’s play Three Tall Women (2018).
Net Worth 2023
Glenda Jackson had an estimated net worth of $5 million before her ultimate death.
Glenda Jackson’s Cause Of Death
Actress and former Member of Parliament Glenda Jackson has died, aged 87.
Sir Michael Caine has described actress and former MP Glenda Jackson as “one of our greatest screen actors” following her death aged 87.
Sir Jonathan Pryce said he believed she was “the greatest actor this country has ever produced”.
Her agent, Lionel Larner, said in a statement on Thursday: “Two-time Oscar-winning actress and politician Glenda Jackson passed away peacefully at her home in Blackheath, London, surrounded by her family, this morning after a short illness.
“She just finished The Great Escape, in which she starred with Michael Caine.
Sir Michael first played with Jackson in 1975. After their recent meeting, he said: “It was just as wonderful an experience this time as it was 50 years ago. I will miss him.”
Other tributes were shared from different parts of the world of art and politics.
Labor MP Tulip Siddiq, who currently sits in Jackson’s former seat, tweeted: “Shocked to learn my predecessor Glenda Jackson has passed away.
“A great politician, a wonderful actor and a very helpful mentor to me. Hampstead and Kilburn will miss you, Glenda.”